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	<title>Welcome to Firepit</title>
	<link>http://www.firepit.nickwilding.com</link>
	<description>... transformative learning towards creative, resilient communities of place and practice</description>
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		<title>Climate Change Despair and Empowerment Roadshow</title>
		<link>http://www.firepit.nickwilding.com/2007/11/12/climate-change-despair-and-empowerment-roadshow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Resonating with my post a few days ago about &#8216;wisdom of no escape&#8217;, I&#8217;ve found a good resource on youtube and some old friends &#8211; the Rainforest Information Centre &#8211; working with &#8216;despair and empowerment&#8217; work around Climate Change: Watch here Check out the other &#8216;peak moments&#8217;, too&#8230; for example, the film about Cuba&#8217;s experience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mainstreaming eco-social innovation&#8230; conference season!</title>
		<link>http://www.firepit.nickwilding.com/2007/11/10/mainstreaming-eco-social-innovation-conference-season-begins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firepit.nickwilding.com/2007/11/10/mainstreaming-eco-social-innovation-conference-season-begins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heads of some of the biggest corporations in the world &#8211; Dupont, LaFarge, Eskom and Shell, as well as Otto Poon from Analogue, Hong Kong, talk about corporate response to global warming. In Hong Kong for the World Business Council meeting, the group says it will not be business as usual. Read it here. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>media spot on STV news for &#8216;Fife Diet&#8217; launch</title>
		<link>http://www.firepit.nickwilding.com/2007/11/04/media-spot-on-stv-news-for-fife-diet-launch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firepit.nickwilding.com/2007/11/04/media-spot-on-stv-news-for-fife-diet-launch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would it take to eat local&#8230; for a year? Mike Small has catalysed a grass-roots movement for bioregional eating with a &#8216;Fife Diet&#8217; project, launched at the Centre for Stewadship in Falkland last Friday. The media were out in force and there&#8217;s a good piece from STV linked from the &#8216;Fife Diet&#8217; blog&#8230;. click [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Wisdom of no escape&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.firepit.nickwilding.com/2007/11/02/wisdom-of-no-escape/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firepit.nickwilding.com/2007/11/02/wisdom-of-no-escape/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an email to a friend today, I remembered Pema Chodron&#8216;s phrase the &#8216;wisdom of no escape&#8217;. Since I first read her work several years ago on becoming radically present, this phrase has stayed with me. The Wisdom of No Escape The central question of a [spiritual] warrior&#8217;s training is not how we avoid uncertainty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communities of Practice round-up</title>
		<link>http://www.firepit.nickwilding.com/2007/10/22/communities-of-practice-round-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firepit.nickwilding.com/2007/10/22/communities-of-practice-round-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been revisiting the literature on Communities of Practice today, prompted by two lively discussions &#8211; amongst colleagues at the Centre for Human Ecology (CHE) and also amongst some participants who attended the recent Carnegie Rural Action Research Programme (see my other post). I thought I&#8217;d share my &#8216;top sites&#8217; from today: www.infed.org is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carnegie Convention buzz&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.firepit.nickwilding.com/2007/09/29/carnegie-convention-buzz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firepit.nickwilding.com/2007/09/29/carnegie-convention-buzz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aviemore autumn; rains against double-glazing, and I&#8217;m eating too much pudding to compensate&#8230; Hosting the Carnegie UK Trust Rural Action Research Programme convention was a great challenge to hold with clarity and purpose a very wide range of stakeholders; it was also a fantastic buzz as the compexity, diversity and energy of an extraordinary group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Your Voice Heard! report published</title>
		<link>http://www.firepit.nickwilding.com/2007/09/21/get-your-voice-heard-report-published/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firepit.nickwilding.com/2007/09/21/get-your-voice-heard-report-published/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alongside the Masters&#8217; degree in Human Ecology, a focus of my work with colleagues at the Centre for Human Ecology since 2003 has been working with emerging leaders in Scotland&#8217;s Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) community. Bringing a &#8216;training for transformation&#8217; approach to leadership development, Verene Nicolas and I have most recently completed a programme, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From fear to love</title>
		<link>http://www.firepit.nickwilding.com/2007/09/17/from-fear-to-love/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firepit.nickwilding.com/2007/09/17/from-fear-to-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A live inquiry for me is attempting to understand better what good facilitation involves; how to hold open spaces for transformational learning, within an action research approach. As part of this work I do &#8216;freefall&#8217; writing &#8211; stream-of-consciousness writing that tumbles out before &#8216;I&#8217; have a chance to censor it too much. This is some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theory U &#8211; Otto Scharmer</title>
		<link>http://www.firepit.nickwilding.com/2007/08/27/theory-u-otto-scharmer-and-wwf-uk-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firepit.nickwilding.com/2007/08/27/theory-u-otto-scharmer-and-wwf-uk-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first came into touch with Otto Scharmer&#8217;s &#8216;Theory U&#8217; through the Pioneers of Change network in about 2002, and my friends at Engage! InterACT in the Netherlands. Reading Scharmer&#8217;s excellent summation of ten years developing this model of transformational learning, I realise how influential this learning has been and how resonant this work is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facilitating the Carnegie UK Trust convention: programme</title>
		<link>http://www.firepit.nickwilding.com/2007/08/27/facilitating-the-carnegie-uk-trust-convention-programme/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firepit.nickwilding.com/2007/08/27/facilitating-the-carnegie-uk-trust-convention-programme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carnegie UK Trust has invited me to work with them to help maximise the potential of their rural action research programme (RARP) to transform rural development practice across the UK and Republic of Ireland. This work, building on the Rural Leadership Programme that is hosted by Falkland&#8217;s Centre for Stewardship,  involves designing and facilitating this [...]]]></description>
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